Family caregivers speak: Family caregiving for children with serious medical...
Two mothers of children with severely disabling, incurable medical conditions share with us their experiences as family caregivers. One of them recalls her memories of her child, who died three years...
View ArticleFamily caregiving for dementia
Dementia is the name for various conditions that cause loss of memory, judgment and reasoning, and changes in mood, behaviour and communication abilities. By far the most common form of dementia is...
View ArticleFamily Caregiving and Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Melanie York, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, and Colleen Smailes, whose husband Clayton died from it in 2009, share their experience with and insights into family caregiving for this devastating,...
View ArticleCaregiving in the US and Canada: AARP and CARP Perspectives
The healthcare systems of the US and Canada rely on the unpaid help of family caregivers. Family caregivers are the people who provide care to family members suffering health challenges. AARP and its...
View ArticleCaring in Stages
Paul Hogan and Sharon Galway are with Home Instead Senior Care, the world’s largest senior-care business of its kind. Paul is co-founder of the Home Instead organization, headquartered in Omaha,...
View ArticleDouble-Duty Family Caregivers
Dr Catherine Ward-Griffin is a Professor of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at the University of Western Ontario. Judith Phillips is Professor of Gerontology and Social Work in the Centre...
View ArticleFamily Caregiving in Immigrant Families
Dr Joan Lesmond and Donna Schempp are both with organizations providing care to immigrant families and their family caregivers. The organizations are, respectively, Saint Elizabeth Health Care, in...
View ArticleMedicAlert and Family Caregiving
Ramesh Srinivasan and Robert Ridge are, respectively, Senior Vice President of the US MedicAlert Foundation and President and CEO of the Canadian MedicAlert Foundation. In MedicAlert and Family...
View ArticlePharmacists and Family Caregivers
In the episode, ‘Pharmacists and Family Caregivers’, Bill Brown, a pharmacist with extensive experience in the business of pharmacy and healthcare describes the new world of pharmacy and what this...
View ArticleSecurity for Family Caregivers and their Families
Michael Power is a Toronto-based lawyer who advises public and private sector clients on privacy and information risk management issues. Tom Warren is a former police officer with the information...
View ArticleFamily Caregiver Burnout
Physician Dr Wendy Graham and psychologist Dr David Travland discuss burnout in family caregivers. Burnout is widely known to be a risk which overtakes too many family caregivers as they grapple with...
View ArticleTechnology Helping Family Caregivers
Mark Rutherford of Philips Healthcare and Bill Archer of MonAmi Caregiving Ltd talk about their organizations’ missions, products and services that serve family caregivers. They tell us what they see...
View ArticleProfessionals with significant disabilities: balancing health, caregiving and...
Dan Thompson and Dr. JR Harding are successful professionals. Both have significant disabilities. For them, balancing health, caregiving and career is their continuing challenge. They describe how they...
View ArticleFamily Caregivers and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Teresa Kellerman and Bruce Ritchie are parents each with a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. This is caused by alcohol consumed by the child’s mother during pregnancy. Alcohol consumed during...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s Disease and Family Caregiving at Home
Ruth Drew and Joan O’Callaghan are both highly qualified professionals in their fields. Both have experience of Alzheimer’s disease. Ruth is Director of Client and Information Services for the...
View ArticleKate's Voice: Children with Special Needs and Music Therapy
Laura Rutherford and Meredith Pizzi are linked by music therapy. Laura is the mother of Kate, who has multiple developmental and physical disabilities and who inspired Kate’s Voice, a non-profit group...
View ArticleGrandparents and Kinship Family Caregiving
Betty Cornelius and Sherry Johnson are kinship caregivers. Kinship caregivers are often grandparents, but they may be aunts, uncles, cousins, or others who are caring for children or youths in need of...
View ArticleCivil Rights and Civil Liberties for Family Caregivers
Dr Deborah Peel is a practicing physician and founder of the US organization, Patient Privacy Rights. Ms Micheal Vonn is a lawyer and the Policy Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties...
View ArticleLou Gehrig’s disease, ALS and MND: Support for Family Caregivers
David Cameron is President & CEO of the ALS Society of Canada. Rodney Harris is the Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria, Australia. They describe their...
View ArticleWhen a loved one chooses home to die: how the family caregiver and the family...
Dr Sandy Buchman is an experienced family physician specializing in home-based, end-of-life care. Don Fenn is Publisher of the Family Caregiver Newsmagazine, which he founded after 11 years as family...
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